[Instead of ending up together, I would have really loved it if Julian had become kind of like Ezri’s Sisko – good friends in a prior life, with Dax as the mentor, and then their friendship continuing on into the next life, the now older, more mature friend mentoring the new Dax during their first shaky steps as a new host. But No, everything’s gotta be het.]
@romulan-commander and I were talking about how Ezri taking on the Dax symbiont is integral to her character but we both love Jadzia and hate her death and were trying to figure out ways this could work around and came up with:
AU where when Jadzia was hurt in Change of Heart it caused damage to her
connection with the symbiont and then Dukat’s attack made it worse so her body rejects the
symbiont but she can live without it now due to I dunno, trek science, however it causes damage to her
memories and she actually forgets Ben and that grief coupled with the attack on the station means he still leaves
but then Ezri still gets the symbiont and now has to deal with having some of Jadzia’s memories while she’s still right there
and no one really knows how to deal with especially not these two. but Ezri can help Jadzia recover some of her memories and Jadzia can help Ezri deal with the sudden onslaught of them and the symbiosis commission hates that the two of them are just existing like this because it def fucks up their whole ideal (I mean if two Trills aren’t supposed to interact who did in a previous lifetime them two Trills who hosted the same symbiont must be pissing them off)
I really like this idea because (1) Jadzia and Ezri being confused and in a bad situation but still helping each other out! (2) the Symbiosis Commission is trash and once they both feel better they can threaten the Commission to spill out all the things Dax knows and is supposed to keep secret, which would make me feel very vindicated
“Ezri, you always were too proud for your own good.”
While I am not really an Ezri fan I like that her story and this episode gave us Trills who weren’t interested in being joined and had their own lives that had nothing to do with being joined. It was neat to see the other perspective.
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